Update to Marin Open Space Trust–MOST

Posted on Feb 25, 2013 in Client News, Tagged
Update to Marin Open Space Trust–MOST

Making Good on MOST It was pleasing to be selected to update MOST–Marin Open Space Trust, and was a rewarding project to be involved with. The development, WordPress theme customizations and content design were all part of the project. After looking at the previous site and discovering it was on Joomla! v.1.0 it was determined a ...

Let’s Travel Somewhere is Armchair Travel at It’s Best

Posted on Feb 5, 2013 in Tagged
Let’s Travel Somewhere is Armchair Travel at It’s Best

What I like: When you arrive at this site you are immediately introduced to the newest stories and they are appropriately called “Fresh”. Each story is a photo journal about the contributors travels and has a short editorial to accompany it. This is one of the best examples I have seen for intuitive navigation. You can ...

Search on TV

Posted on Jul 19, 2012 in Tagged, Technology, TV Remote, User Experience Design
Search on TV

Designing Search and the user experience for television First, there is no pretense of an answer in these notes. This question took shape in a current project as the TV viewer’s user experience related to Search began to be defined. The exercise has a narrow focus: is there still value in adding a list of  pre ...

Giant leaps ahead for both users and UI design

This week there has been a lot of coverage for two new advances in the technology front and both of them are leaders in the quiet revolution to move us away from the mouse and into intuitive control of the multiple devices that are so prevalent in our daily lives. Video is provided for each ...

Service as Story: Storyboarding the Customer Journey

Posted on May 27, 2012 in User Experience Design, User Interaction

See on Scoop.it – UX Design – Making Sense of Chaos Service design offer a way for organizations to see what their customer’s “journey” really looks like, from the earliest stages through the moment they decide to leave a service, or grow alongside it. By storyboarding out what employees’ and customers’ experiences look like – ...

More Than Usability: The Four Elements of User Experience

Posted on May 27, 2012 in User Interaction

Value, usability, adaptability and desirability. Frank Guo defines these as the four pillars of user experience design and offers their employment as a means to meaningfully measure our success. “To help define the objectives and scope of user experience efforts, as well as enable their meaningful measurement, I would like to propose a conceptual framework ...

Leap Motion gesture control technology hands-on

This is exciting and now the my “I want” is alive and well! Leap Motion unveiled its new gesture control technology earlier this week, along with videos showing the system tracking ten fingers with ease and… See on www.engadget.com More information here in my notes on the technological leaps this week

Is Google’s TV strategy a winner?

Posted on May 26, 2012 in Technology, TV Remote

As LG launches the first next-generation Google TV sets, how well is Google positioned for the future of television? The Internet giant has a longstanding strategy to extend its domain from PCs to other devices, particularly mobiles and TV sets. For television, this would bring both its search service and YouTube’s content to smart TVs and ...